Murmures d’inanimés (in)audibles
Performed and recorded by Frantz Loriot (March 2022, Zurich, Switzerland).

This is a one-shot take. There are no special effects, nor montage.

Listening with headphones is recommended.

List of manipulated objects:
1.	Corrugated cardboard
2.	Plastic postcard, lenticular printed
3.	A piece of Velcro tape (both hook and loop sides)
4.	Three different types of sponges (polyester, foam, and steel wire)
5.	Dried poppy seed pod
6.	Various toothbrushes
7.	PVC cards

Little objects of the everyday are present in our lives – useful and useless, visible, and invisible. They accompany us in our days without flinching. Inanimate, inaudible, whispering discreetly. If we pay them a little attention, listening to them by bringing our ears closer, if we leave them enough time to express what they want to tell, they emit and produce rich sounds in spite their smallness: speaking surprising, disconcerting, disturbing sounds. All we ought to do is let them move and relate to each other, to conceive and build a space and scape where listening is a base from which new possibilities can arise.

Murmures D’inanimés (in)audibles

The Notebook Large Ensemble is:
*Frantz Loriot (France) - viola, composition
*Manuel Perovic (Switzerland) - composition, arrangement, conducting
*Joachim Badenhorst (Belgium) - clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax
*Sandra Weiss (Switzerland) - alto sax, bassoon
*Matthias Spillmann (Switzerland) - trumpet, flugelhorn
*Silvio Cadotsch (Switzerland) - trombone
*Deborah Walker (Italy) - cello, voice
*Dave Gisler (Switzerland) - guitar
*Silvan Jeger (Switzerland) - double bass, voice
*Yuko Oshima (Japan) - drums

Recorded live at Moods (Zurich, CH) on April 2014.
Mixed by Aaron Nevezie at Bunker Studios (Brooklyn, NY) and mastered by Jim Clouse at Park West studios (Brooklyn, NY). Produced by Frantz Loriot. 

Notebook Large Ensemble - Urban Furrow - West 4th

Duo Maroney / Loriot
Denman Maroney - hyperpiano
Frantz Loriot - viola, objects
Recorded by Michael Brorby at Acoustic Studio (Brooklyn, NY) on april 29th, 2011.

Duo Maroney / Loriot

Natura Morta is 
Sean Ali - contrabass, Carlo Costa - drums & Frantz Loriot - viola.
Recorded and mixed by Nathaniel Morgan at Buckminster Palace (Brooklyn, NY) on January 27, 2012. Mastered by Jim Clouse at Park West Studios (Brooklyn, NY).

Etropy by Natura Morta

Duo HEC with Youen Cadiou & Frantz Loriot (both on electronics)

Winds from ULYSSES by Frantz Loriot on viola and Tonino Miano on piano.
Released on the Bronx label Impressus Record.

Ulysses/WINDS/Duo Loriot/Miano

Track from viola solo “While Whirling” by Frantz Loriot.
Released in June 2021 on LA based experimental music label Thin Wrist

All music by Frantz Loriot, Viola
Artwork by Mark Younkle
Album and track title poem by Eliot Cardinaux
Recorded, Mixed, Mastered by Philipp Schaufelberger in Zürich, Switzerland
Vinyl Mastering by Kevin Gray, Cohearent Audio

Notebook Large Ensemble - Urban Furrow - West 4th

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